The LangLabEmailer helps integrating the digital audio lab (still widely operating based on files and network shares) into the departmental language teaching and learning process by automatically forwarding (audio, text) assessments and assignments collected in the digital audio lab to teachers and students via campus mail (using MS-Exchange automation).

Easy on the Language Lab Manager who can "set up and forget": 1000s of assessment files will reach their originating students and teachers in near real time without you lifting a finger.

To earn "extra credit", show your teachers how they can override the default LangLabEmailer behavior by adding “_noemailing” or “_nostudentemailing” to the folder name when saving their digital audio lab collections.

If the students’ audio tracks are not already time-aligned, first use audacity: "time shift tool" to align individual tracks (with this tool selected, you can move individual tracks back and forth, to the left or right).

If/ When they are time-aligned, use audacity/ menu: tracks/"stereo track to mono".

SharePointDesigner is a FrontPage derivative, but still beats dealing with the special markup MS-Office tends to smuggle into your legacy web pages.

And you can download it for free from MS here, install and open a file by right-clicking it and “Open with”, like so: .

User then can e.g. select a pinyin word, right-click it, access the font-dialogue, like so: , and, to align this alphabetic pinyin list to the progression in the syllabus if the Chinese language program, assign a heat-scale like so: . E.g this would denote an easy character for Chinese 101: .

Note 1: Do not use SharePointDesigner 2010,, this doe not allow easy editing of single web pages anymore: .

Note 2: The CSS style markup that SharePointDesigner puts in smartly for the font color change is ignored by Internet Explorer 8 (Huh?!), so we will have to TBA:ask students to use Firefox instead.

Note3: Why not just use MS-Word as HTML-Editor. Even if you save as and choose “Web-page filtered, like so: , to avoid MS-Office specific markup, MS-word puts spurious markup in that makes it not only slow down the road to open the file, but also difficult to post-process them with regular expression (I have a few hundred copies to make for different animation speeds). Compare the file sizes here: